You hit the nail on the head here "cheap digitals". You know, I rarely see
anyone with a good digital. Now I have a 2100uz, which I love, but all I
see are the cheaper fuji and coolpix cameras (and these are still
expensive).
I agree with the distribution over email, but you know what, when people go
over to friends' houses, it is the albums that come out and not the CD rom.
Albums can be passed around and you can socialize over it. I dread the day
when we sit in front of a TV to look at pics.
My bet is that REGULAR consumers only take digital pics to email, when
quality doesn't matter. Again on our trip to PEI this summer I just walked
up to anyone with a digital camera and asked them what do they do with the
pics (much to my wife's chagrin). Nobody printed them. They were for
email. When it came time to take the mementoes, out came film. Digital has
a very long way to go to replace film in this respect.
As for being cheaper I am not so sure. It maybe, but for the average
consumer amortizing the cost of a printer+paper+ink maybe a stretch. I
think alot of digital users now are going to find 10-15 yrs. from now that
they have lost their pics due to hard drive crashes etc. I will stick
mainly with film now, at least for "real" photography.
-Bill
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From: tOM Trottier [mailto:Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: September 23, 2002 12:04 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [OM] Digital photography article
Cheap digitals are less useful on trips because of the limited picture
storage space and remoteness from one's own computer.
I think they are extensively used for local family/friend gatherings and
outings, when the computer is available soon after. Digital pix are much
cheaper than film.
Family photos are also more distributed by email than trip photos.
Tom
Someone said:
> They do, but according to the owners of the shops here in Ottawa Canada,
> hardly anyone uses them. On our recent trip to PEI this summer (my wife
is
> from there) I saw no digital cameras. All film. Get this, I even saw an
> OM1n and OM2n!!!!! Film cameras' upfront cost is cheap relative to
> digital, and this is what most people base their decisions on I think.
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